Field Technician
Terabase Energy · Woodland, California, United States · Posted Jun 18, 2026
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Company Overview
At Terabase Energy, we believe digitalization and automation will help reduce the cost and improve the scalability of large-scale solar. Terabase is developing an interconnected software and construction automation platform to support the design, optimization, and construction of utility-scale solar projects worldwide.
Our team includes solar industry veterans and newcomers — software, electrical, and mechanical engineers; product and project managers; and sales and marketing professionals — working together from Northern California and other locations around the world.
Position Summary
Terabase is hiring a Field Technician to install, instrument, operate, and maintain prototype hardware at our research and test sites. This is the hands-on field role that gets engineering hardware functional and instrumented for validation work.
Location & Travel
- Primary location: Davis/Woodland, CA test site (Sacramento area).
- Travel to additional project test sites as required
Responsibilities
- Install prototype hardware — including foundation work, structural assembly, mechanical components, and electrical hookup
- Install field instrumentation — strain gauges, load cells, accelerometers, weather monitoring, and data acquisition systems
- Execute daily test protocols and log results against acceptance criteria
- Support weld inspection and quality verification in coordination with our manufacturing team in Woodland
- Maintain field test equipment, prototype hardware, and on-site spare parts inventory
- Document field observations, photograph anomalies, and feed structured findings back to the engineering team
- Travel to project test sites